Written in January 1922
First published in 1959
in Lenin Miscellany XXXVI

Printed from the manuscript

* See present volume, pp. 415-423. Ed.
** — In sum. Ed.
*** The entire plan in the manuscript is crossed out by V. I. Lenin. Ed.

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V. I. LENIN

I. and II. 1922.

Plan and beginning of an article: "Notes of a Publicist":

§ I: On ascending to high mountains. Insert into the title:
"As if by way of example" (1-4)
Higher than all previous revolutions. W[hen] th[ey] "pure democrats — they are the same as bourgeois-democratic revolution ("divorce and serf-owner P. A. Sorokin").
"Economist"
**** No. 1
?)) exit from the imperialist w[ar]—

***** ) Soviet state.
— serf-owners" (also dialectics).
§

"ideal triumvirate": Martov, Chernov, and anarchists. "Ideal" for capitalists: ideally-pure, — stupid, — pedantic, — worthless, — doctrinaire, — convenient, — influential (ideal for conveying bourgeois ideas to the working class), — impotent, — talkative, etc.

II NB:

When can the foundation of a socialist economy be considered laid? When product exchange is secured

* This phrase in the manuscript is crossed out by V. I. Lenin. Ed.
** These and the following paragraphs in the manuscript are crossed out by V. I. Lenin. Ed.
*** — Acquisition for all time. Ed.
**** See Works, 4th ed., vol. 33, pp. 208-210. Ed.
***** These and the following points in the manuscript are crossed out by V. I. Lenin. Ed.

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